Delivered to 324 Squadron at Leeuwarden on 27 August 1956 as '3P-16', N-144 spent a short time with 327 Squadron at Soesterberg, before returning to Friesland in December 1957 for service with 325 Squadron and the Leeuwarden Vliegdienst.
D-8022 and D-8013 were the first two single-seat Starfighters for the KLu. Delivered to Twenthe AB on 12 December, 1962, this Starfighter briefly served with 322 Squadron at Leeuwarden, before heading south to Volkel. D-8022 finally retired in March 1984.
After some years indoors, T-37B-CE 57-2247 is now on display next to the Newton Flight Academy building in the aviation museum's car park area. The former 80th FTW aircraft has the ENJJTP (Euro-Nato Joint Jet Pilot Training) badge on the fin.
In 1989, the wreck of 16/141 was recovered by the Bodø Lufthistoriske Forening. On 29 March 1943, the Vajenga (Murmansk)-based machine was shot down by Luftwaffe fighters. Pilot Aleksej I. Tshasonikov force-landed at the Kudalsfjellet near Hamningberg.
Norseman 44-70546 was shipped to Europe in March 1945 for use by the 8th Air Force. In 1947, she transferred to Norway for service with Polar Fly at Narvik, registered LN-PAB. At the time of her crash, the PAB was in service with Wideroes Flyveselskap.
LN-PAB, ex-USAAF 44-70546, crashed on 3 September 1952, when she hit the shore during landing at Lake Gavnevann, in the Finnmark province in northern Norway. The wreckage was salvaged by the Norwegian Aviation Museum, Bodø, in 2002.
Canadian Vickers-built Stranraer RCAF-920 has code 'QN' of No.5 (Bomber Reconnaissance) Squadron on the rear fuselage. In November 1940 the squadron was part of Eastern Air Command. This unit was baed at RCAF base Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
At the time of this picture, former Air Foyle's HA-MKE was being restored, to be finished in an olive drab Sovjet Air Force c/s, as 'Red 14' with on both sides of the fuselage the Morayvia 'logo' in cyrillic. 'Red 14' is ex CCCP-07713 and UR-07714.
Entering service with No.202 Advanced Flying School, XD425 later served with 7 Flying Training School (FTS), 5 FTS and 8 FTS and was withdrawn from use in November 1967.
ZD241 (ex G-ASGM) was converted to K.4 tanker at Filton between April 1991 and May 1995. She came to Bruntingthorpe on 21 March, 2013. Of note is the fake civil registration 'G-NBOK'.
XM569's cockpit is reasonably complete, with only the altimeter (behind left stick) and the stand-by artificial horizon missing. After years at the Wales Aircraft Museum, the B.2 was scrapped, with the cockpit section surviving here at the Jet Age Museum.
WL168 is in the markings of 616 (South Yorkshire) Squadron as 'WK864/C'. WL168 served with 111 and 604 Squadron at RAF North Weald before being converted to TT.8 for use by the Armament Practice School at RAF Sylt from January 1959 until September 1961.
This composite rebuild is based on the rear fuselage of B.II HR792, with centre section and wings of Hastings C.1 TG536 with other parts from LW687, JP158 and HR723. On this side are the markings and code 'H7-N' of Halifax B.VII NP763 of 346 Squadron.
This composite Halifax is based on the rear fuselage section of B.II HR792 and represents B.III LV907/NP-F , 158 Squadron. LV907 was scrapped after the war, but the original "Friday 13th" artwork by LAC Jack Weeks, MBE, was preserved at the RAFM Hendon.
Former Twenthe AB gateguard Q-283 (USAF 54-1283) recently got a fresh brush of paint and is shining in her 700 Squadron colours at the Nationaal Militair Museum.
After arrival at Sola in May, 1956, this RF-84F-26-RE became 'T3-G' with 717 Skvadron. The code changed in 1962 to 'AZ-G'. In November 1969, the aircraft was stored at Vaernes (Trondheim) for future display.
This replica was built by the Neptune Association and represents aircraft W.57, lost in a fatal accident over the North Sea, off Den Helder, on 17 November, 1925. The WA was a licence-built Hansa-Brandenburg W.12 for the Dutch Naval Air Service.
This C.V-D was licence-built by the Haerens Flyvemaskinfabrikk at Kjeller and took part in the battles against invading German forces. '349' was evacuated to Sweden on 15 April 1940. In 1949 the Fokker was presented to the RNoAF.
In 1934 Fokker C.V '312' was converted to C.V-D, equipped with a RR Kestrel and reserialled '634'. The aircraft survived the war and went on display in the Aviodome, Schiphol, in the 1950's as '618', one of the aircraft lost in May 1940.
Before transferring to the RNoAF, F-86F-35-NA Sabre 53-1206 served with the 48th FBW at Chaumont AB in France. The Sabre was with 331 Skvadron as 'FN-D' from July 1958 and later flew with 338 Skvadron.
F-86F 'AH-D' of 332 Skvadron with the Joker Acro Team badge on the fin. On 28 May 1957, four 332 Skvadron Sabres, led by Lt Kjell Zetterstrøm, flew their first aerobatics over Rygge as the Joker Acro Team, soon adopting the name 'Flying Jokers'.